threatens u.s. national security? thousands of jobs could be lost. boehner is calling the cuts deep, when they're not. no, i do not have an explanation. i don't think that there is a reasonable explanation. i don't understand it. don't have an answer for you. it is too simple to chalk this up to incompetent. it may be that, but i don't have an answer, i can't explain it to you. all i know is that it doesn't make any sense. >> and since we are once again in a political and governing territory where we have never been before, those of us who use political models of the past to predict what will happen in our political future are of course, totally lost. there is now only one person who seems to know how this is going to end. >> obama knows that all he has got to do is go out there and make a couple of really tough speeches like he did yesterday, and the republicans will cave. i mean, that is the history of this. >> krystal ball, i wish i could share rush limbaugh's confidence -- >> he is always right, so -- >> of yeah, how this works, i don't really ha